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Houston County

Map of Houston County, Texas, including the Piney Woods region. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: May 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Temple Houston and Party

Photograph of a group of men standing on rocks near the Republican River in Kansas. Temple Houston is the third man from the left.
Date: 1888~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History

City of Houston, Texas, 1884.

Map shows first, second, third, fourth, and fifth wards of Houston, Texas with street names, buildings, parks, churches, businesses, cemeteries, railroads, block numbers, lot numbers, and ownership. Inset: [The center of Houston on an enlarged scale]. Scales [1:12,000] and [1:3,000].
Date: 1884
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Houston 1885 Sheet 1

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Houston in Harris County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1885
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Houston 1885 Sheet 4

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Houston in Harris County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1885
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Houston 1885 Sheet 3

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Houston in Harris County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1885
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Houston 1885 Sheet 12

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Houston in Harris County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1885
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Houston 1885 Sheet 7

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Houston in Harris County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1885
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Houston 1885 Sheet 10

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Houston in Harris County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1885
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Houston 1885 Sheet 11

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Houston in Harris County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1885
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Houston 1885 Sheet 5

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Houston in Harris County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1885
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Houston 1885 Sheet 6

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Houston in Harris County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1885
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Houston 1885 Sheet 15

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Houston in Harris County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1885
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Houston 1885 Sheet 8

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Houston in Harris County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1885
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Houston 1885 Sheet 13

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Houston in Harris County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1885
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Houston 1885 Sheet 2

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Houston in Harris County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1885
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Houston 1885 Sheet 14

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Houston in Harris County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1885
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Houston 1885 Sheet 9

Sanborn map sheet showing an area of Houston in Harris County, Texas, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: 1885
Creator: Sanborn Map Company
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Telegram to Alexander Simon from Sol Heidingsfelder of Houston] (open access)

[Telegram to Alexander Simon from Sol Heidingsfelder of Houston]

Papers of Alexander Simon. Telegram to Simon from Sol Heidingsfelder of Houston; "Break the news gently to mother of Babys death funeral tomorrow answer if coming."
Date: May 21, 1884
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas]

Photograph of a field at Fort Sam Houston near San Antonio, Texas. The rectangular field's perimeter is lined with trees. Cannons are visible at the base of the flagpole in the center of the image. A tower is in the background and other buildings are at the right. Cabinet card format.
Date: 1889
Creator: Paris, A. C.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas]

Photograph of a field at Fort Sam Houston near San Antonio, Texas. There is a gazebo in the center. At the edge of the field are trees with houses visible behind them. Cabinet card format.
Date: 1889
Creator: Paris, A. E.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Fan Combination Stand. (open access)

Automatic Fan Combination Stand.

Patent for a new and improved automatic-fan combination-stand. This design "relates to an improved stand or support for an automatic fan, which said stand shall be portable, so as to be conveniently set up wherever desired, and which shall contain various hooks, brackets, shelves, and other conveniences" (lines 17-22).
Date: November 28, 1882
Creator: McKeehan, Charles Houston
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from R. C. Houston to Huth & Sons, July 3, 1889] (open access)

[Letter from R. C. Houston to Huth & Sons, July 3, 1889]

Letter from R. C. Houston to Huth & Sons requesting an itemized receipt and stating the account will not be settled before fall.
Date: July 3, 1889
Creator: Houston, R. C.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Cotton Chopper and Scraper. (open access)

Combined Cotton Chopper and Scraper.

Patent for a new and improved cotton chopper and scraper. This design consists of "the frame, the arms or standards pivoted to the said frame and carrying the chopping hoes or plows, the rock-shafts having the arms connected to the standards or [other] arms, and the [third] arms, and the rotating crank-shaft connected to the [third] arms, whereby the standards or arms will be caused to alternately approach and recede from each other as the machine advances" (lines 52-61).
Date: September 14, 1886
Creator: Basham, Wesley Houston
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History